v. t. To dress or adorn tawdrily or with false taste. [ 1913 Webster ]

Remnants of tapestried hangings, . . . and shreds of pictures with which he had bedizened his tatters. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. That which bedizens; the act of dressing, or the state of being dressed, tawdrily. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Dizened p. pr. & vb. n. Dizening. ] [ Perh. orig., to dress in a foolish manner, and allied to dizzy: but cf. also OE. dysyn (Palsgrave) to put tow or flax on a distaff, i. e., to dress it. Cf. Distaff. ] 1. To dress; to attire. [ Obs. ] Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To dress gaudily; to overdress; to bedizen; to deck out. [ 1913 Webster ]

Like a tragedy queen, he has dizened her out. Goldsmith. [ 1913 Webster ]

To-morrow when the masks shall fall
That dizen Nature's carnival. Emerson. [ 1913 Webster ]